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Chuck Ross is the managing director of TVWeek.com. He's been involved in the TV business ever since he sold cable TV subscriptions in Santa Monica, Calif., door-to-door in the mid-to-late 1970s. He's had regular gigs reporting and/or editing about TV and advertising for Cablevision magazine,The Hollywood Reporter, the San Francisco Chronicle, Inside Media and Advertising Age. He first joined the predecessor to TVWeek, Electronic Media, in 2000.
One of the stars of the comedy series “A Different World,” which was a fixture on NBC in the late 1980s and early 1990s, has died. TMZ.com reports that Lou Myers, who played Vernon Gaines on the sitcom, died Tuesday…
Bill O’Reilly has come up with a successful franchise with his "Killing" books, with "Killing Lincoln" being turned into a Nat Geo TV movie and "Killing Kennedy" also optioned for a TV movie. Now, reports TVNewser, O’Reilly has picked his…
A New York anchorman who was arrested last weekend and accused of choking his wife during a domestic dispute has resigned from his job, The New York Times reports. Rob Morrison, 44, stepped down from his job anchoring the morning…
Fox is tinkering with its prime-time lineup, moving a couple of shows to a new night in what is billed for now as a one-time-only experiment. EW.com’s Inside TV reports that the Zooey Deschanel comedy "New Girl" will move from…
Tyler Perry is shifting allegiances — ending his long-standing relationship with one cable network and strengthening his bond with his new partner, Oprah Winfrey. The Los Angeles Times reports that “Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse" will move from TBS,…
Comcast Corp., the country’s largest cable operator, is changing its policy on gun ads in the wake of the school shootings in Newtown, Conn. The Los Angeles Times reports that Comcast’s cable systems “will stop accepting ads for guns or…
WE tv has ordered a new docuseries focusing on a high-profile Olympic athlete. B&C reports that the cable network ordered six one-hour episodes of “Glam & Gold,” centered on Olympian Sanya Richards-Ross and her husband, NFL player Aaron Ross. The…
The creator of the critically acclaimed ITV/PBS period drama “Downton Abbey” says he might have to cut back his work writing the series. Julian Fellowes, who won an Oscar for his screenplay for “Gosford Park,” tells The New York Times…
With the Ben Affleck movie “Argo” generating much of the buzz in the runup to Sunday’s Oscars, Disovery Channel has spruced up its 2002 documentary detailing the real-life events behind the “Argo” story. The channel will televise an updated version…
CNN fixture Anderson Cooper, who officially came out as gay last year, will be honored by the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy and anti-defamation organization GLAAD, USA Today reports. The organization “will present the journalist, author and…